Can-5, Mortier, 1910 Macedon Rd. [Co. Rd. #28]

    Documentation

    Building date: Ca. 1845

    Original use:

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    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy, vertical pyramids

    Types and uses of stones: Field stones

    Types and choice of windows:

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    Masons who worked on building:

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°56'17.89"N 77°16'46.64"W. Current owner of record, Colyer as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Canandaigua and Ontario County Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    The Zachary Tiffany house, 1910 Macedon Road, was built ca. 1845. It has a distinctive central projection and porch and consists of nine rooms, including five bedrooms. It is built of field stones. It also includes a welcoming foyer and four fire places. Its size is 3,127 square feet. Richard Palmer blog.

    "The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the first paragraph on page 20.

    Handwritten notes by researcher Gerda Peterich.


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Tiffany - Mortier House
    Page 92

    "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Tiffany House
    Pages 122 - 123

    "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 80. Ontario County, Tiffany-Mortier House.

    Photographs

    Tiffany house
    Tiffany house.jpg ¹ Old photo of the Tiffany house. Note decorative railing around top of porch.
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    Can-5 Mortier 1
    Can-5 Mortier 1.jpg ³ Photograph by Clyde Maffin, Ontario County Historian 1968-81.
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    ¹ Image provided by Richard Palmer blog.
    ² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
    ³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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